Northerii Portion of the Malaij Peninsula. 45 



Peninsula are a native skin from " Malacca/^ the type of 

 /. malayaniis, and another obtained by Davison at Klang, 

 Selangor, the type of /. archipelagicns mornatiis. 



Shelley {loc. cit.) has described the female as similar in 

 plumage to the male, on the sti'ength of a specimen (" c " 

 of the Catalogue) from Bintulu, Sarawak, sexed as such by 

 Everett. It is, however, proI)able that this is an error and 

 that the female differs from the male in the absence of the 

 chrome-yellow shoulder-patch and possibly in the slightly 

 smaller size. 



The type of /. malayanus is not devoid of a shoulder-patch 

 as stated by Sharpe, but has it only slightly marked and 

 largely concealed by the method of preparation ; it is 

 probably a young male. 



Neumann's race is evidently not valid, and no constant 

 differences can be detected between the four specimens from 

 the Peninsula now before me, and five from Borneo, Avhich 

 are not obviously due to age and sex. 



Both the above-mentioned examples were shot by natives, 

 one in the vicinity of a bees^-nest and both in deep jungle, 

 but nothing else is known of the habits of the Malayan 

 species. 



PiCID/E. 

 4-123. GeCINUS VITTATUS. 



Gecinus vittatus (Vieill.) ; Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 

 xviii. p. 46 (1890). 



Fairly common along the coast of the Peninsula from the 

 Langkawi Islands southwards, especially where there are 

 Casuarina trees, but rarely seen inland. 



'»-124. Gecinus viridanus. 



Gecinus viridanus Blyth ; Hargitt, tom. cit. p. 47. 



Common in Trang. 



This species replaces G, vittatus northwards of the Lang- 

 kawi group and also in the Patani States on the east cf the 

 Peninsula. The bird from the island of Salanga, G. iveberi 

 Miiller fJ. fur Orn. 1882, p. 421), of which there are several 



